Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.